linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs: don't let getdents return bogus names

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Message-ID: <20180716195657.GO30522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:   Mon, 16 Jul 2018 20:56:57 +0100
From:   Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:     Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
Cc:     Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>,
        Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
        Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: don't let getdents return bogus names

On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 09:48:43PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> When you e.g. run `find` on a directory for which getdents returns
> "filenames" that contain slashes, `find` passes those "filenames" back to
> the kernel, which then interprets them as paths. That could conceivably
> cause userspace to do something bad when accessing something like an
> untrusted USB stick, but I'm not aware of any specific example.
> 
> Instead of returning bogus filenames to userspace, return -EUCLEAN.

Because there's such a lot of userland code that expect and handles that
error value...

I'm not sure if this mitigation is actually better than "just return it
as-is", TBH.